duplicate mesh along text?
A group of particles. Note the outliner windows shows a group of two spheres. 
Press keyboard t to show information panel.  To create a group you may select both spheres and press keyboard Control G. The information panel allows you to type in name.  

In the forces you may want  to turn off gravity, gravity = 0.  You may also want to emit all particles quickly.  Start = 1. End = 2.


Single Object Particle



Convert the text to mesh and use particles. Note the vertices of the mesh in edit mode are highlighted. The particle object will be a sphere.